Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Case Study

Phase 1 DAS Expansion

The success of the Children’s Hospital project proved over time that DAS networks provide an integral foundation for a robust clinical wireless environment. Moreover, this environment enhances the ability of hospital staff to perform their duties while also increasing patient satisfaction. Thus, Penn State Health approved funding in 2017 for a sizable expansion of the multi-technology DAS to cover 1.7 million square feet of the primary superstructure of Hershey Medical Center. Intenna completed the DAS expansion in early 2018 and added AT&T service around the same time. For network capacity and bandwidth purposes, the DAS was now divided into five zones.

Phase 2 DAS Expansion

The next phase expansion

began during the second half of 2018 and was completed in early 2019. The scope of work for this phase included four nonclinical nearby buildings, a fitness center and a long underground utility tunnel. Altogether this scope encompassed more than 500K square feet of additional DAS coverage and brought the total number of zones to eight. T-Mobile joined the DAS shortly after the